Thomas Lim's Saturday Night Live sketch comedy equivalent of the National Day Parade cleverly exploits our patriotic socialisation and turns it on its head: same emotional manipulation, different socio-political outcomes.
Corrie Tan
Corrie makes sense of art through intimate writing. A wayfarer travelling between academia and journalism, she is committed to a politics of care in critical discourse across South-east Asia.
The arts critic in Singapore contends with numerous disparate forces pulling at her, all at once.
Three very different maternal figures took the stage in the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival’s Singaporean offerings: an overprotective mother, a mother in the clutches of dementia, a motherland consumed by conflict. How might we confront these difficult relationships? Our critic tries to find out.
A critic’s third watch of Wild Rice’s sprawling play “Hotel” prompts questions about how we might sojourn through a national history from a room with a specific view. Since its first staging in 2015, how has “Hotel” played host to Singapore’s societal and political changes?
An intimate piece of documentary theatre performed by three respected practitioners reveals how the Singaporean theatre industry has come of age—and how that generation has shaped the theatrical age we now live in.